Tag: Transgression

Free Download Namrata Pathak, Dhurjjati Sarma, "Performing Arun Sarma: Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation"
English | ISBN: 1036402142 | 2024 | 155 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Free Download Faten Haouioui, "Genre Studies in Focus: Transgression or Reconciliation"
English | ISBN: 1036400158 | 2024 | 209 pages | PDF | 1519 KB
This collection of essays aims to revise genre theory and studies. Authors in this volume present and discuss different literary genres in transition. They investigate genre hybridization, transformation, reconciliation and evolution. Therefore, the volume reconceptualizes the theory according to novel texts and contexts in, for example, trans-generic film series, feminine poetry, and Arab women writing. It introduces new generic labels in travel literature and new sub-genres in Maghrebean literature.

Free Download Theo Reeves-Evison, "Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression"
English | ISBN: 1501339907 | 2020 | 228 pages | PDF | 21 MB
What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine? In this original new book, Theo Reeves-Evison argues that transgressive art no longer succeeds on its own terms in societies where language, prohibition and morality have become increasingly malleable. This compels us to rethink the relationship between contemporary art and ethics, and focus our attention on the potential of artworks to propose new values rather than simply challenge pre-existing moral codes.

Free Download Dante and the sense of transgression : the trespass of the sign By Dante Alighieri; Franke, William; Dante Alighieri
2012 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1441136916 | PDF | 2 MB
In Dante and theSense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysiswith philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante’spoetic vision. Conversely, Dante’s medieval masterpiece becomes our guideto rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestivearchetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an obsession with transgressionbeneath Dante’s overt suppression of it, there is another and a prior sense inwhich transgression emerges as Dante’s essential and ultimate gesture. His work as a poet culminates in the Paradiso in atranscendence of language towards a purely ineffable, mystical experiencebeyond verbal expression. Yet Dante conveys this experience, nevertheless,in and through language and specifically through the transgression of language,violating its normally representational and referential functions. Paradiso’sdramatic sky-scapes and unparalleled textual performances stage adeconstruction of the sign that is analyzed philosophically in the light ofBlanchot, Levinas, Derrida, Barthes, and Bataille, as transgressing andtransfiguring the very sense of sense.

Free Download Kornelia Freitag, "Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry"
English | ISBN: 1443880450 | 2015 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB
There is no poetry without memory. Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal, collective, and cultural memory. It looks at the manifold and often transgressive techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry. T.S. Eliot s ‘The Waste Land,’ Susan Howe s THIS THAT, Lyn Hejinian s Writing Is an Aid to Memory, John Tranter s ‘The Anaglyph,’ Amiri Baraka s ‘Somebody Blew Up America,’ and Amy Clampitt s ‘Nothing Stays Put’ are only some of the texts discussed in this volume by a group of international poetry experts. They specifically focus on the effects of the cultural interaction, mixture, translation, and hybridization of memory of, in, and mediated by poetry. Poetic memory, as becomes strikingly clear, may be founded on the past, but has everything to do with the cultural present of poets and readers, and with their hopes and fears for the future.

Free Download Erin C. Devine, "Translation and Transgression in the Art of Shirin Neshat "
English | ISBN: 1032376430 | 2023 | 130 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Lisa Purse, "Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation"
English | ISBN: 1474446272 | 2022 | 226 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In state and public discussion about war and conflict, figures of transgression such as deserters, pacifist and emigrants are often marginalised, but they also play a key role in rethinking cultural and national identity in the wake of military violence. Raising questions of agency, responsibility and culpability in relation to the ‘other’, their cultural representation can enable reflection on and renegotiation of values and collective norms after the destabilisation of war.

Free Download Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND THE LAW – 1200 to 1700"
English | ISBN: 3111215903 | 2023 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 100 MB
How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to 1700, this book shows that people in both these worlds invested considerable energy in worrying, debating, and writing about proscribed practices. It compares how people in the two worlds came to terms with the proscriptions of sodomy, idolatry, and usury. When historians speak of the gap between premodern practice and the legal theory of the time, they tend to ignore the myriad of justifications that filled this gap. Moreover, a focus on justification evens out many of the contrasts that have been alleged to exist between the two worlds, or the Muslim and Christian worlds more generally. The similarities outweigh the differences in the ways people came to terms with the various rules of divine law. The level of flexibility of the theologians and jurists in charge of divine law varied more over time and by topic than between the two worlds. Both worlds also saw the development of ever more sophisticated justifications. Amid the increasing complexity of justifications, a particular kind of reasoning emerged: that good outcomes are more important than upholding rules for their own sake.